The world's first commercial was a low-speed maglev shuttle that ran from the airport of Birmingham (16 August 1984).Based on experimental work commissioned by the British government at the British Rail Research Division laboratory at Derby, the length of the track was 600 m, and trains "flew" at an altitude of 15 mm. It was in operation for nearly eleven years, but obsolescence problems with the electronic systems made it unreliable in its later years and it has now been replaced with a cable-drawn system. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Maglev_train
Yannick, CNMV Bucharest
The world's first commercial was a low-speed maglev shuttle that ran from the airport of Birmingham (16 August 1984).Based on experimental work commissioned by the British government at the British Rail Research Division laboratory at Derby, the length of the track was 600 m, and trains "flew" at an altitude of 15 mm. It was in operation for nearly eleven years, but obsolescence problems with the electronic systems made it unreliable in its later years and it has now been replaced with a cable-drawn system.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Maglev_train